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Both the Washington Post and Atlantic Media, owner of Quartz, are framing a gesture of peace between North and South Korea as propaganda, pushing us further toward nuclear war. https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/pences-olympic-mission--rebuff-north-koreas-propaganda/2018/02/09/6140f7b4-0d9c-11e8-baf5-e629fc1cd21e_story.html?utm_term=.a5a2276e9086&__twitter_impression=true ... See more

Amid the pomp of the opening ceremonies, Pyongyang can pretend that everything is OK back home.

The fact that North and South Korea are demonstrating the desire for peace at the Olympics should be an indicator that the U.S. is the obstacle to successful negotiations. The concept of North Korea as a threat is State propaganda propagated by the mainstream media to stoke unnecessary war to profit the weapons manufacturers. North Korea has repeatedly stated that its nuclear weapons program is defensive and that it will end the program if the U.S. and South Korea end their military posturing on North Korea’s border. https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/9/olympics_begin_with_unified_korean_team ... See more

In Pyeongchang, South Korea, the 2018 Winter Olympics have opened, with North and South Korean athletes marching together at the open ceremonies. The games are seen as a pivotal moment for relations between the two countries, who have been officially at war since 1950. In an effort to de-escalate te... ... See more

Officers don’t shoot, they are merely “involved” in shootings; victims are not victims, but “suspects” “fleeing”; human beings become premortem cadavers as bullets “enter the torso” rather than the chest of a person; guns and bullets act on their own as they “discharge” or “enter the right femur,” rather than being fired by autonomous individuals with agency and purpose. Headlines become 14-word, jargon-heavy tangles where a simple five-word description would suffice. ... See more